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AlcoholicBeverage GnT = Gin + Tonic;
AlcoholicBeverage ForTwo = GnT * 2;
Console.WriteLine("Gin{0} & Tonic{1}", ForTwo.GinCount() <= 1 ? "" : "s", ForTwo.TonicCount() <= 1 ? "" : "s");
Clearly writes "Gins & Tonics".
But...the correct phrase would be Gin and Tonics[^]
And the plural "fish and chips" is clearly "fish and chips twice" 
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Well the argument is that gin and tonic is a noun - just add an s for many.
So what is the argument for "governors general"?
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In that example, general is a post positional adjective.
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Gins and Tonic is correct.
Like Courts Marshall or Professors Emeritus.
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Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I agree but for example "whisky and sodas" just sounds wrong.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Sounds exactly correct to me.
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Alan Kay.
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An unequalled authority, with strange Hungarian name, stated 'Gin and Tonic' is invariant, or better, the singular form is unused.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I didn't think he even knew what "tonic" was? 
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pwasser wrote: how about "fish and chips".
A normal portion is a single piece of fish with a bag of chips (what foreigners call fries or frites) added.
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Over here (UK), the norm is Gin & Tonics. Frequently shortened to "two G&Ts".
I've never, ever, heard anyone ask for 2 Gins and Tonics (they'd probably get 2 gins and 2 tonics separately if they did).
I guess its hard to parenthesise in speech "2 (gin and tonic)s".
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Alan Kay.
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There's a simple solution if you mix a second gin and tonic you now have 2 milli-Nagy's.
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This is a situation where you have two nouns that, together, describe a single thing. So the plural goes on the second noun: gin and tonics.
There are situations where you will have a noun followed by an adjective or other attributive, such as "power of attorney" and "notary public." In these cases, you pluralize the one noun in the phrase: powers of attorney and notaries public.
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Looking at an MS Access database which has been (incorrectly) converted to an SQL Database.
Me no like.
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what sort of issues are there ?
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See my reply to Damo below
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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What was incorrect about the conversion?
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The databases are entirely different - so it's not a case of simply migrating - so there is some logic concerning things like changing address formats, de-duplication of customer data etc.
Interestingly, the issue I am looking into at the moment is where an empty column in the Access table is appearing in the C# code (from a simple OleDbCommand Select * via a datareader) as a null-prefixed rubbish string (i.e. "\0someotherspuriousdata") which is then being used to update the SQL database.
I say 'interestingly' because I can see no faulty logic - immediately after the ExecuteReader, the OleDbDataReader.GetString("fieldName") method returns the corrupt string.
So I now need to find out if that string actually exists in the Access Db but is hidden by the Access Gui, or is there something wrong with the OleDb functionality.
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Well, open the Access DB directly and have a look!! 
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When you look at the field in Access it appears blank.
It appears identical to the same column in another row that is really blank (not null).
But when read into the C# proggy, one contgains string.empty, the other contains "\0somerubbish"
I had to fix it by checking every field as read in for a leading ascii null!
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
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Ugly... good that you got a fix though!!
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You may feel better - but me converting a AS/400 database created 25 years ago, where the original info with the developers are gone!
So I'm running the application and try to find out what every data is. And to add to this tables and columns are named by numbers so I have tbl201.c18!!!
That what I call happy coding!!! 
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Hopefully that app is not written in RPG[^] (shudder).
(Edited, for some reason the link got cropped - maybe related to the URL ending with the same characters as the selected text) (that was a hint to the hamsters).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oh, RPG wasn't all that bad.
no, wait.,
Yes it was!
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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